Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate and space scientist Chip Manchester designed a completely new simulation ...

A team of scientists has warned that we need a better system for detecting space tornadoes caused by plasma eruptions from the sun. These spirals of solar wind can lead to large solar eruptions that ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journalis sounding the alarm about swirling solar wind structures that may pose an underestimated threat to Earth’s technological systems. Researchers have ...

Weather forecasting is a powerful tool. During hurricane season, for instance, meteorologists create computer simulations to forecast how these destructive storms form and where they might travel, ...

In this short NASA documentary, storm researcher Tim Samaras describes how satellite imaging can help predict tornadoes. Because it's unclear exactly how various weather conditions come together to ...

Tornadoes are complex and tough to predict but this short documentary from NASA is a good introduction to how they work. Researcher Tim Samaras explains how different weather systems collide across ...

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: small, tornado-like vortices spun off of an ejection from the Sun. These ...